Finding OER For Your Class
Finding the right open educational resources (OER) is the most challenging part of using OER in your classroom. These resources are a great place to start.
Open Textbooks
Start here to find resources for all subjects:
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Mason OER Metafinder: Searches across dozens of sites for OER and other openly licensed scholarly materials
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OpenStax: Affiliated with Rice University and publisher of some of the most widely used OER focused on lower division, general education courses
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Open Textbook Library: Free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks for higher education
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Pressbooks Directory: Provides an index of thousands of titles published across almost 100 PressbooksEDU networks
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OER Commons: Public digital library of OER
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MERLOT: Free, international, and open peer-reviewed collection of OER
Not finding what you need? Here are more places to search:
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American Institute of Mathematics Open Textbook Initiative: Open textbooks approved by the American Institute of Mathematics Editorial Board
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BCcampus: Resources curated and developed by higher education experts in British Columbia, Canada
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Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL): OERs for foreign languages
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GALILEO Open Learning Materials: Resources created by Georgia educators, some with grants from Affordable Learning Georgia
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OpenOregon: Resources curated and developed by higher education experts in Oregon
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Open Michigan: Collection of OER and ancillary resources from University of Michigan
OER-Related Information and Resources
Find more specific resources
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Community of Online Research Assignments (CORA): Open access research assignments for your class
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MIT OpenCourseware: Open, web-based publication of MIT courses
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OPEN Washington: Pathway to learn, find, use, and apply OER
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Saylor Academy: Open textbooks and open courses
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Wikiversity’s Portal for Tertiary Education: A Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research
Open Books
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Internet Archive: Millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more
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HathiTrust: Collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world
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Project Gutenberg: 56,000 free eBooks
Evaluating OER
Unsure if an OER is the right fit? Not all OER are created equal. Use the Affordable Learning Georgia guide to Selecting Textbooks to help you find the right match.
OER from the Emory Community
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ActivEpi by David Kleinbaum: http://www.activepi.com/
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German Grammar by Hiram (Max) Maxim: https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/germangrammar